The lie told by Greg Abbot concerning border safety.

Governor Greg Abbott's statement that “ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obama’s policies” was criticized as “ridiculous” by Politifact Texas. I agree with Politifact Texas' claim that this statement was completely false because of the proof presented by them in this article. For example, Politifact Texas asked the Texas Department of Public Safety for information regarding ISIS activity at the border, and a DPS spokesman told them that they didn’t have that sort of information. In addition, spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, Marsha Catron, told Politifact Texas that “DHS does not have any credible intelligence that terrorist organization are planning to attempt to cross the southwest border.” These statements prove that government intelligence disagrees with Abbot’s claim. However, in order to avoid bias, Politifact Texas also asked the same question to non-government experts who replied in a similar manner. For instance, Victor M. Manjarrez, “director of the National Center for Border Security & Immigration at the University of Texas at El Paso,” told Politifact Texas that claims of terrorist activity in the southwest border have been discredited. Politifact Texas also found evidence that contradicted the idea of “a border made porous by Barack Obama's policies.” For example, Richard Nelson of the Center for Strategic & International Studies notified Politifact Texas that Obama has provided a large amount of resources directed for border security. Other federal figures, according to Politifact Texas, claim that these resources caused “apprehensions of individuals crossing the border without legal authority” to decrease; in 2015 the number of apprehensions at the border was 331,333 which is 39 percent lower than apprehensions in 2009. These facts provided by experts on immigration show that Greg Abbott's statement of the safety of the Texas border was not only false but irresponsible as well.

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Politifact Texas, "ISIS is running through a border made porous by Barack Obama's policies," http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2016/jun/17/greg-abbott/greg-abbott-makes-unfounded-claim-about-isis-runni/ )